RE: [sniffer] Message sniffer in FreeBSD & Postfix

2006-02-08 Thread Landry, William (MED US)
Yep, but for someone not running IMail/Declude, the integration with spamassassin and amavisd-new works great. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NetEase Operations Manager Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:45 AM To: sniffer@SortMons

RE: [sniffer] Message sniffer in FreeBSD & Postfix

2006-02-08 Thread Landry, William (MED US)
Sniffer can be integrated into amavisd-new via spamassassin. SA will capture the Sniffer score and add it to its total score and amavisd-new will act on that score as it currently does with spamassassin integration. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [sniffer] problems!!!!

2006-02-08 Thread Landry, William (MED US)
I think a better solution or check-point might be to run any new rules (at lease ones that may be questionable) though a corpus test of known spam and ham to see how the new Sniffer rule functions. This is how the SARE and SA folks evaluate their new rules and determine an appropriate weight to a

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Bad Rule - 828931

2006-02-07 Thread Landry, William (MED US)
Don't know about the proper syntax for baregrep, but for the standard UNIX grep for Win32, the following would give you an accurate count: grep -c "Final.*828931" c:\imail\declude\sniffer\logfile.log Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-27 Thread Landry, William (MED US)
Thomas, if your company cannot afford the rather small monetary increase, and you are running that close to the edge, then maybe you should not be in business. I for one am glad to hear the SNF is adding resources and has mapped out a list of future feature enhancements. Please quit your grippin

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price!

2005-12-27 Thread Landry, William (MED US)
Agree wholeheartedly!   Bill From: Dean Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 2:18 PMTo: sniffer@SortMonster.comSubject: Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] Last chance to renew at the old price! You know, I just don't get where all of the doom and gloom comes from. Yes, it

RE: [sniffer] Large amounts of spam still getting through

2005-10-14 Thread Landry William
We do exactly this at our Postfix gateways, it's called greylisting. See http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/. You may want to consider setting up a gateway in front of your IMail server that supports greylisting. Bill -Original Message- From: Mike Nice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates

2005-06-15 Thread Landry William
Did you happen to comment out or not change either of the following variables in your script to point to the correct drive\directory paths?: SET SnifferDrive=c: SET SnifferDir="c:\imail\declude\sniffer" Which cause the calls to these variables later in the script's execution to fail: %SnifferDr

RE: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates

2005-06-15 Thread Landry William
Strange, the script does not leave any temp files in my spool directory. Bill -Original Message- From: George Kulman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:55 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates There seemed to be a problem wi

RE: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates

2005-06-15 Thread Landry William
Have you checked out ImailSnifferUpdateTools.zip?  It contains detailed instructions and can be downloaded from http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/AutomatingUpdatesHelp.html   Bill From: Glenn \ WCNet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 12:43 PMTo: sniffer@S

RE: [sniffer] Spam Storm Alert...

2005-01-31 Thread Landry William
Well, after a second look (reviewing the headers), it looks like the message got hung-up in the convoluted mess of internal mail gateways that Siemens maintains (which I have no control over). Sorry for the noise...! Bill -Original Message- From: Landry William Sent: Monday, January

RE: [sniffer] Spam Storm Alert...

2005-01-31 Thread Landry William
Hmmm, a day and a half later this shows up on the list...??? Bill -Original Message- From: Landry William Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 6:51 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Spam Storm Alert... My only suggestion for QM is to disable "DNS Cache" a

RE: [sniffer] Spam Storm Alert...

2005-01-31 Thread Landry William
My only suggestion for QM is to disable "DNS Cache" and "Failed Domain Skipping", both of these caused problems for me in the early 8.xx versions, so I have just left them off. As far a the thread settings, that really depends on how many messages you process per day. You may find some guidance

RE: Re[4]: [sniffer] Still having problems

2005-01-08 Thread Landry William
This little script can give you a raw hit count per test: egrep "Clean|Final" c:\path\to\sniffer\sniffer.log | gawk "{print $8}" | usort | uniq -c | usort Bill -Original Message- From: Kirk Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 11:20 AM To: sniffer@SortMons

RE: [sniffer] Tweaking our rule base

2005-01-06 Thread Landry William
I would suggest taking a look at Nerd's (http://countries.nerd.dk/more.html) instead of Blackholes, they are much more comprehensive in their available tests, and they can all be with a single lookup, rather than one per country zone. Bill -Original Message- From: Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] RuleBase ktk82hrr

2005-01-04 Thread Landry William
Yep, just checked mine rulebase too, went from 17mb to just under 25mb. Things still appear to be functioning okay. Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 9:49 PM To: Computer House Support Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] RuleBase k

RE: [sniffer] Weak rule removal work...

2005-01-04 Thread Landry William
Thanks Pete, these are the kind of proactive notification I wish some of our other vendors followed. Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 1:35 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: [sniffer] Weak rule removal work... Hell

RE: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2005-01-03 Thread Landry William
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Landry William Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 2:46 PM To: 'sniffer@SortMonster.com' Subject: RE: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions Documenting and troubleshooting rule creation/configuration I think would only add to the complexity. Als

RE: [sniffer] Hello - New to sniffer

2004-12-30 Thread Landry William
Bennie, I will send you my updated scripts and a couple of necessary open-source utilities off-list (hopefully you can receive zipped executable files - let me know if you don't receive my off-list message). Also, as Pete mentioned, we have had some discussion on the list the past couple of days

RE: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2004-12-29 Thread Landry William
: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions I agree on the simplicity, just thought it would be a bonus not to involve sortmonster with the address changes. Woody -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Landry William Sent: Wednesday, December 29

RE: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2004-12-29 Thread Landry William
also continue to receive the notifications where ever you were getting them before. Woody Fussell Wilbur Smith Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Landry William Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 9:08 PM To: 'sniffer@SortMonste

RE: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2004-12-29 Thread Landry William
Title: Message I can send you the files, if they will pass your virus filters (.exe files).  Otherwise, they are included in the Win32 UNIX Utilities download that you can find at http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/.  Or you can find gzip at http://www.gzip.org/ and wget at http://www.gnu.org/s

RE: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2004-12-28 Thread Landry William
Title: Message John, since you have not implemented a trigger program alias yet, would you be willing to test the setup instructions and provide feedback?   Bill   -Original Message-From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:30 PMTo:

RE: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2004-12-28 Thread Landry William
Title: Message Thanks for all of the suggestions, Matt.  See my comments below: -Original Message-From: Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:17 PMTo: sniffer@SortMonster.comSubject: Re: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructionsBill,I

RE: [sniffer] Triggered rulebase update instructions

2004-12-28 Thread Landry William
Attached is an updated instructions file to fix some typos and missed information. I'll send out another update after receiving feedback from others. Bill --- This message and any included attachments are from Siemens

RE: [sniffer] Sniffer Downloads

2004-12-28 Thread Landry William
nna change that... That's also one of the reasons I posted to the list :) I'm always trying to make things harder for myself ;) Thanks, Russ Landry William wrote: > Russ, why go through all of the additional steps? I just pointed my > program alias directly to my snfupd.

RE: [sniffer] Downloads are slow...

2004-12-28 Thread Landry William
It's actually compared to your running .snf file, not the .new file, since the file is renamed .new as part of the download with the "-O" switch. Bill -Original Message- From: Darrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:39 AM To: sniffer@Sor

RE: [sniffer] Downloads are slow...

2004-12-28 Thread Landry William
Title: Message Good idea, Matt.  I'll put together a draft and submit it to the list for review later today.  I'll also include the open-source gzip file so that everything is contained in one package (instructions, download script, and gzip file).   Bill -Original Message-From

RE: [sniffer] Sniffer Downloads

2004-12-28 Thread Landry William
Russ, why go through all of the additional steps? I just pointed my program alias directly to my snfupd.cmd file and it works just fine. Bill -Original Message- From: Russ Uhte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 12:33 PM To: Daniel Ivey Cc: sniffer@SortMonster.c

RE: [sniffer] Conditional Sniffer Updates

2004-12-27 Thread Landry William
"Curl" is an awesome application that we also use for automating downloads. "Wget" also supports conditional downloads based on time/date stamp when using the -N switch. In ether case, please also use the compression support built into each application, the sniffer rulebase files can be compresse

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer Updates

2004-12-27 Thread Landry William
ginal Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: Landry William <sniffer@SortMonster.com>Sent: Mon Dec 27 12:36:06 2004Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Sniffer UpdatesOn Monday, December 27, 2004, 12:46:19 PM, Landry wrote:LW> Are folks taking ad

RE: [sniffer] Sniffer Updates

2004-12-27 Thread Landry William
Are folks taking advantage of the "wget" compression option before downloading their rulebase updates? If the slow download speeds are a bandwidth saturation issue on the Sniffer end, this would certainly cut down on the bandwidth requirements on their end and increase the download times for ever

RE: [sniffer] Change in coding policies

2004-12-22 Thread Landry William
Title: Message -Original Message-From: Chris Ulrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]> OK, being a new (and very happy) customer ...>>>   For example, we will be introducing rules that watch for bounces>>   that contain large numbers of failed addresses - indicating a>>   probable dictiona

RE: [sniffer] New Version 2-3.2 has been officially released.

2004-12-06 Thread Landry William
About half-way down the page at: http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Try-It.html Or the direct link at: http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/sniffer-2-3.2.tar.gz Bill -Original Message- From: Mark E. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 12:18 PM T

[sniffer] Sniffer rulebase download server down?

2004-12-03 Thread Landry William
Title: Sniffer rulebase download server down? Pete, I am no longer able to download my rulebase files on either of our Sniffer servers.  When I execute my download script, I immediately get: gzip: LicenseID.new.gz: unexpected end of file Is the rulebase download server down?  Thanks for loo

RE: [sniffer] Sniffer rulebase download server down?

2004-12-03 Thread Landry William
Title: RE: Sniffer rulebase download server down? Oops, never mind, I see the error of my ways...  :-/ Bill  -Original Message- From:   Landry William  Sent:   Friday, December 03, 2004 1:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:    Sniffer rulebase download server down

RE: [sniffer] Test ordering/precedence

2004-12-02 Thread Landry William
Here's what my Sniffer global.cfg entries for look like: SNIFFER-TRAVEL external 047 "M:\Sniffer\LicenseID.exe AuthCode" 07 0 SNIFFER-INSURANCE external 048 "M:\Sniffer\LicenseID.exe AuthCode" 12 0 SNIFFER-AV-PUSH external 049 "M:\Sniffer\LicenseID.exe AuthCode" 10 0 SNIFFER-WAREZ

RE: Re[5]: [sniffer] Recent SPAM

2004-11-30 Thread Landry William
Wow, I like the new direction you're moving towards! This will provide a much more scalable, secure, and robust service due to its distributed nature. Keep up the good work! Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 8:37 PM To

RE: Re[4]: [sniffer] Recent SPAM

2004-11-30 Thread Landry William
-Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 1:36:13 PM, Andrew wrote: CA> Pete, could you recap for us how to set up a "Declude project" to forward CA> non-sniffer-detected spam to a custom spamtrap address at SortMonster? CA> Perhaps two

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] New Version 2-3.2 has been officially released.

2004-11-23 Thread Landry William
No problems experienced here on either of our servers. Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 6:12 AM To: System Administrator Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] New Version 2-3.2 has been officially released. On Tuesday, November 2

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] How are folks doing with the latest version?

2004-11-22 Thread Landry William
Sure, fire away... ;-) -Original Message- From: Karen Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 5:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: [sniffer] How are folks doing with the latest version? ready for a news item yet? -- Original Message -

RE: [sniffer] How are folks doing with the latest version?

2004-11-22 Thread Landry William
See http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Installation/HowTo.html Bill -Original Message- From: Michael E. Cummins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 11:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [sniffer] How are folks doing with the latest version? I don't t

RE: [sniffer] How are folks doing with the latest version?

2004-11-19 Thread Landry William
So far so good... Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 12:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [sniffer] How are folks doing with the latest version? Hello Sniffer Folks, I am curious to know how many folks have been usi

RE: [sniffer] Your Sniffer Setup

2004-11-01 Thread Landry William
gards Andy Schmidt H&M Systems Software, Inc. 600 East Crescent Avenue, Suite 203 Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458-1846 Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax:+1 201 934-9206 http://www.HM-Software.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [sniffer] Your Sniffer Setup

2004-11-01 Thread Landry William
ness) Fax:+1 201 934-9206 http://www.HM-Software.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Landry William Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 11:03 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [sniffer] Your Sniffer Setup See http://suppor

RE: [sniffer] Your Sniffer Setup

2004-11-01 Thread Landry William
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;137890 for simplified instructions. Bill -Original Message- From: Andy Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 6:26 AM To: 'Keith Johnson' Subject: RE: [sniffer] Your Sniffer Setup Hi Keith, It's pr

RE: [sniffer] Persistent Server setup with SrvAny Resource Kit tool

2004-11-01 Thread Landry William
sure - then you should be alright! Best Regards Andy Schmidt Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax:+1 201 934-9206 -Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Landry William Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 03:32 AM To: '[EMAIL PROT

RE: [sniffer] Persistent Server setup with SrvAny Resource Kit tool

2004-11-01 Thread Landry William
L PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Landry William Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 02:15 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [sniffer] Persistent Server setup with SrvAny Resource Kit tool Hmmm, that's strange, since I use SrvAny, as well. And it has worked with all Sniffer updates since th

RE: [sniffer] Persistent Server setup with SrvAny Resource Kit tool

2004-11-01 Thread Landry William
file with the very current time-stamp? Best Regards Andy Schmidt Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax:+1 201 934-9206 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Landry William Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 02:15 AM To: '[EMAIL

RE: [sniffer] Persistent Server setup with SrvAny Resource Kit tool

2004-10-31 Thread Landry William
Hmmm, that's strange, since I use SrvAny, as well. And it has worked with all Sniffer updates since the first persistent version was released. Also, my "Parameters" registry entry does not look anything like yours: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Sniffer\Parameters] Applic

RE: [sniffer] Rulebase download script

2004-10-31 Thread Landry William
  p.s. Instead of Scheduled Tasks, I use the "AT" command from the command line so that the update runs as the SYSTEM account; I'd rather have multiple AT commands than remember to change the password on an account and all of it's Scheduled Tasks. -

RE: [sniffer] Rulebase download script

2004-10-30 Thread Landry William
Sure, executing the script via the e-mail notification would work fine. However, in that case you will not really need to test that the rulebase file has changed, so you could remove the "-N" switch from the wget line. Bill -Original Message- From: Sheldon Koehler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Re[5]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.1 Official Release

2004-10-28 Thread Landry William
It should be included in the zip/gzip file you downloaded. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 3:28 PM To: Pete McNeil Subject: Re[5]: [sniffer] Version 2-3.1 Official Release Hi, I have no .cfg in the sniffer dire

RE: [sniffer] Imail

2004-10-28 Thread Landry William
Yep, we reported a but to Ipswitch several months ago, as well, and followed up several times since then, and although they have release IMail patches since we reported this, they have not fixed the issue. It has to do with passwords not being case sensitive when using SQL as you user database.

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] 2-3.0i9 looks good to me... How about you?

2004-10-27 Thread Landry William
Here is what I've been using for several months now, compiled from the original Sniffer autosnf.cmd file and suggestions found on this list: = rem First, get the updated rules file from the web site. wget -N http://www.sortmonster.net/Sniffer/Updates/rulebase.snf -O rulebase.new.gz --header=A

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] 2-3.0i9 looks good to me... How about you?

2004-10-26 Thread Landry William
Aren't you using the compression option to gzip your files before downloading them? This compresses a 14mb file down to about 4mb, which greatly helps in the download times and reduces the bandwidth requirements on the SortMonster end. Also, are you downloading on some fixed schedule or when upd

RE: [sniffer] 2-3.0i9 looks good to me... How about you?

2004-10-25 Thread Landry William
It's been running fine here on both of our server for the past few days. Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [sniffer] 2-3.0i9 looks good to me... How about you? Hello Sniffer Folks,

RE: [sniffer] New test version 2-3.0i7

2004-10-18 Thread Landry William
This is from Pete's message of 10/14/2004, announcing Version 2-3.0i5 to the Sniffer list: MDaemon users should see a significant improvement in performance. Please let me know if this is true. The reason is that since most MDaemon system integrate Message Sniffer through the content filter

RE: [sniffer] New beta v2-3.0i4

2004-10-12 Thread Landry William
It works for me. Bill -Original Message- From: Frederick Samarelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 9:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sniffer] New beta v2-3.0i4 Link not working - Original Message - From: "Pete McNeil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

[sniffer] Sniffer misses "NIGERIAN" type spams

2004-09-19 Thread Landry William
Title: Sniffer misses "NIGERIAN" type spams Pete, I am wondering why Sniffer has such a problem detecting the so-called "NIGERIAN" types of spam.  It seems that I have been forwarding several of them daily to the spam@ address for weeks, but Sniffer still consistently misses them.  There must

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Test ordering/precedence

2004-09-19 Thread Landry William
-Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've actually been thinking very strongly of reorganizing the rule group IDs recently. Especially in light of the new changes we've made with robots et al. The accuracy of the Experimental IP group has gone up considerably -

RE: [sniffer] Increase in FPs

2004-09-15 Thread Landry William
-Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] LW> I have seen a fairly substantial increase on false positives today.  LW> I have submitted several FPs to the false@ address.  Has there been LW> a big change in the core rulebase today?  I wouldn't think that LW> upgrading

[sniffer] Increase in FPs

2004-09-14 Thread Landry William
Title: Increase in FPs I have seen a fairly substantial increase on false positives today.  I have submitted several FPs to the false@ address.  Has there been a big change in the core rulebase today?  I wouldn't think that upgrading to the new code this morning would cause this, would it? Bi

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Surprising missed spam

2004-09-14 Thread Landry William
Pete, I started running the new code this morning, and so far, so good. I'll let you know if I see anything strange. Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 8:56 AM To: Agid, Corby Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Surprising missed

RE: [sniffer] Curious Postfix Install Problem.

2004-09-01 Thread Landry William
Haven't seen it here, but sounds like it could possibly be some kind of permissions issue. What account is the script running under, and what are the permissions on the file? In my master.cf file (user=snfilter): snfilterunix- n n - 10 pipe flags

RE: Re[6]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately)

2004-07-29 Thread Landry William
That's strange, our Exchange server does not strip off any of the Declude headers. Bill -Original Message- From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[6]: [sniffer] Effectiveness (lately) Should I

RE: [sniffer] FIN File

2004-07-29 Thread Landry William
It's an orphan, you can safely delete it. Bill -Original Message- From: Keith Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [sniffer] FIN File I found a .fin file in my sniffer directory and didn't know if anyone knew what it wa

RE: [sniffer] Spam submissions

2004-07-28 Thread Landry William
-Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] LW> Pete, I put together a little script that modifies the Q*.SMD file LW> for identified spam messages that were held in my spam directory, LW> but were not tagged by Sniffer, and can forward a copy of these LW> messages to y

[sniffer] Spam submissions

2004-07-28 Thread Landry William
Title: Spam submissions Pete, I put together a little script that modifies the Q*.SMD file for identified spam messages that were held in my spam directory, but were not tagged by Sniffer, and can forward a copy of these messages to your spam@ address.  However, the messages will look like the

RE: [sniffer] IP Rules moving to Group 60

2004-07-16 Thread Landry William
Sounds good to me. Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [sniffer] IP Rules moving to Group 60 Importance: High Hello Sniffer Folks, We are planning to split the Experimental rule grou

RE: [sniffer] SpamAssassin Integration.

2004-07-01 Thread Landry William
-Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I would like to post instructions and/or files on our web site that > show exactly how (step-by-step) to integrate Message Sniffer with > SpamAssassin. It seems this information is hard to find / > understand and I would li

RE: [sniffer] Gray Hosting Change Of Status - Request For Comments

2004-06-24 Thread Landry William
Pete, this proposed change seems to make sense to me. Just let us know when you plan to make the change. Thanks, Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [sniffer] Gray Hosting Change Of St

[sniffer] "WHITE" Result Code

2004-06-24 Thread Landry William
Pete, would you consider assigning a specific result code, other than "0", for tests that come back as "WHITE' versus "CLEAN"? I would like to add a negative weight in Declude for messages that are specifically whitelisted versus just clean. Thoughts? Thanks, Bill

RE: [sniffer] Declude configuration

2004-06-14 Thread Landry William
Here is a sample of what I use: = SNIFFER-TRAVEL external 047 "M:\IMail\Declude\TPA\Sniffer\YourLicenseID.exe YourAuthCode" 05 0 SNIFFER-INSURANCE external 048 "M:\IMail\Declude\TPA\Sniffer\YourLicenseID.exe YourAuthCode" 10 0 SNIFFER-AV-PUSH external 049 "

RE: [sniffer] Sniffer v2-3 "Persistent Instance" keeps stopping

2004-05-16 Thread Landry William
Title: Message Oops, my bad, I had inadvertently uncommented the "Lifetime"  line.   Thanks,   Bill -Original Message-From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 5:07 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [sniffer] Sniffer v2-3 "Persistent Instan

[sniffer] Sniffer v2-3 "Persistent Instance" keeps stopping

2004-05-16 Thread Landry William
Title: Sniffer v2-3 "Persistent Instance" keeps stopping Pete, I am running v2-3 as a service using utilities from the W2K resource kit.  When I start the service I see (masked rulebase ID):     05/15/2004  11:30p  0 RuleBaseID-20040516063150x38214000-2436.SVR And this will stay persist

RE: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release!

2004-05-09 Thread Landry William
PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release! Is this by design - Original Message - From: "Landry William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 11:08 PM Subject: RE: [sniffer]

RE: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release!

2004-05-09 Thread Landry William
! When I do it the window pop-up is blank - Original Message - From: "Landry William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 10:59 PM Subject: RE: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release! > > Fredrick, I sto

RE: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release!

2004-05-09 Thread Landry William
] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 7:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release! I am having problems getting it started from the command prompt. - Original Message - From: "Landry William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMA

RE: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release!

2004-05-09 Thread Landry William
It seems to be working fine for me. I have it running as a service, per Matt's instructions using the W2K resource kit files, and it has been running fine all day. Bill -Original Message- From: Frederick Samarelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release!

2004-05-09 Thread Landry William
Thanks Pete! One other question. I am now downloading my rulebase files as .gz files (much faster downloads now). Are you prepared to receive our log file uploads either zipped or gzipped? Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004

RE: [sniffer] Message Sniffer Version 2-3 Official Release!

2004-05-09 Thread Landry William
Pete, am I correct in assuming that the configuration file (snfrv2r3.cfg) should also be renamed for your license ID, as well? Bill -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 2:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sniffer] Message Snif

RE: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-26 Thread Landry William
-Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Since we're both up at this insane hour. Would you mind making a test? > I've just shut down the Sprint line - so we're running through Savvis > exclusively. If I'm right about the connectivity issue then you should > be a

RE: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-25 Thread Landry William
-Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Normally our bandwidth is sufficient. We have considered mirror sites also, > and we have plans to move our hosting into a local Equinix facility where > we will have similar bandwidth to yours and other benefits. Unfortu

RE: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-25 Thread Landry William
handle the migration of new rule-base files into a busy Sniffer environment? Bill -Original Message- From: Landry William Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:52 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [sniffer] Spam storm? Looks like a bandwidth issue to me, since even doing th

RE: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-25 Thread Landry William
it is downloaded automatically via the Windows Task CMD, then >sniffer fails and the log fills up with the BAD_MATRIX errors. > >Anyone else seeing this? > > >Mike > > >- Original Message - >From: "Landry William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <

RE: [sniffer] Error_Bad_Matrix

2004-03-25 Thread Landry William
I run snf2check.exe against every .snf file downloaded. I just checked it again manually, and no errors were reported. I now have almost 3500 Error_Bad_Matrix entries in today's log. Bill -Original Message- From: Vivek Khera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 12:5

RE: [sniffer] Error_Bad_Matrix

2004-03-25 Thread Landry William
Me too.  I have 2252 "ERROR_BAD_MATRIX" entries in my log so far today.  Pete, what's going on here?  I am still running v2r1, not the latest alpha/beta version.   Bill -Original Message-From: Butch Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:23 AMTo: [

RE: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-24 Thread Landry William
I see over a 1000 of these ERROR_BAD_MATRIX entries in my Sniffer log file today, as well. Is this due to the ruleset issue from earlier today? Bill -Original Message- From: Sheldon Koehler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [sniffer] F-Prot and netsky

2004-02-24 Thread Landry William
Title: Message ClamAV works very well, and is lightening fast when run daemonized (clamd).  It's also hard to beat the price!  I run is along with F-Prot and McAfee's uvscan, and Clam seems to keep up with the commercial scanners as far as virus updates.   Bill -Original Message---

RE: [sniffer] F-Prot and netsky

2004-02-24 Thread Landry William
Possibly the site you are pointed to for the definition downloads is late in getting the updates? I point to ftp1.mirrors.frisk.is for updates and was catching Netsky on the 18th. Bill -Original Message- From: Mike VandeBerg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 7:

RE: [sniffer] F-Prot and netsky

2004-02-24 Thread Landry William
Title: Message The virus definitions F-Prot released today is what is now catching Mydoom.F, as F-Prot has been catching them since about 3am here and I have not upgraded to 3.14c yet.   Bill -Original Message-From: Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2

RE: [sniffer] Error with Postfix/amavis-new/spamassassin

2004-02-09 Thread Landry William
Thanks!  I think I will take a look at the 2.70 snapshot, since it now supports system-wide plug-ins (and SPF).   Bill -Original Message-From: Bill Boebel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 4:24 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [sniffer] Error with P

RE: [sniffer] Error with Postfix/amavis-new/spamassassin

2004-02-09 Thread Landry William
Bill, what version of SA are you running, and how are you integrating Sniffer into SA?  I would like to try this on one of my test servers.   Thanks,   Bill -Original Message-From: Bill Boebel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 3:50 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTE